Table of Contents
Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre
Autumn 2016 Vol. 5 Number 2
Women in Oppression and War: Body, Mind, Heart, Art
Table of Contents
Cover Art by Thea Ghar, “Standing at the Banks”
Editorials
Editorial: Walk Away: Reflections on “Omelas” and Growing up During the Cold War
Lezlie Kinyon, Phd., Ed.
Paradise always comes with a price, whether it’s Ursula K. Le Guin’s shining city of Omelas or the comfortable bubble of suburban America during the Cold War.
Zsuzsanna Budapest on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, in conversation with the Coreopsis’ Editor.
An iconic figure in modern women’s spirituality discusses her experiences during the doomed 1956 Hungarian uprising and discusses her plans for a new animated web series.
Letters
We hear From Our Readers …
Between the Worlds: Wit and Wisdom of the Society for Ritual Arts Artist in Residence
Interview with Chip Thomas
by Helena Domenic Art
The artist’s personal journey, from serving the Navajo Nation as a young physician to celebrating indigenous culture as a photographer and muralist.
Curse of The Morrigan
by Lauren Raine
During a ritual protest against the annual Bohemian Grove meeting of the world’s rich and powerful men, an ancient Irish Goddess curses them for their sins.
Papers submitted for peer review
Dowry Death: A Social and Political Creation
Stacy Dulan, Artist-Scholar, Univ. of California at Berkeley
Art by Thea Gahr
The practice of murdering women in India to obtain or preserve dowry money arose largely from British colonial interference in indigenous marriage traditions.
Novelist Lisa Brackmann interviewed
by Denise Dumars, M.A.
In this trilogy of contemporary novels, an American soldier seeks redemption from her war crimes by fighting for politically oppressed artists in China.
Sex Yes, Censorship No
by Leslie Fish
The adventures of a politically-incorrect folk-singer, from the streets of working-class America to the overly-hallowed halls of academia.
Faerian Drama
by Janet Croft
Nearly eighty years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien first taught the concept of “fantasy with a realism and immediacy beyond the compass of any human mechanism.” Modern-day film and television has not forgotten that lesson.
Music Reviews
New Releases: Music of Note with Commentary by Robyn Perry
What’s new, notable, and announcing: Ritual Arts Radio!
Big Big Train: Folklore, ‘STONE AND STEEL’ DVD and video
A re-formed progressive rock band fuses Celtic, folk, jazz and orchestral sounds to tell archetypal stories of everyday heroes.
and Composing for Space and Time: Karmakanic’s DOT
The words of astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan inspired this musical portrait of Earth within the vast universe.
Snow White: The Mirror Cracked? Margaret Davis & Kristoph Klover Snow White: The Mirror’s Revenge
review by Helena Domenic Art
Fairy tales never really end, they just wait for new bards to continue the story. In this musical journey, we find out what happens after the cursed princess awakens to her Prince Charming.
The Anderson/Ponty Band Better Late Than Never
reviewed by Lezlie Kinyon
The Anderson/Ponty Band’s “pure magic” mix of progressive rock and jazz brought out the 17-year-old in an old rocker’s heart — especially when the live concert rolled into town.
Artist’s Profiles
Audio Interview: Conjuring Art audio interview Nedra T. Williams
interviewed by Luisah Teish
Listen to a lively discussion with Priestesses of the African Orisa tradition, where they discuss healing “spiritual dereliction” via the artist’s direct connection with nature, perform a ritual invocation of the Goddess Olokun, and recount deep-forest encounters with walking sticks, spiders as big as melons, and a mysterious woman in a purple dress.
Gallery
Nedra T. Williams: “Conjuring Art”
Announcements
The Final Word: Staff Feature
For Your Consideration
by Laurie Dietrich with art by Luisah Teish
Just as the Big Bang shaped the universe, our use of words shapes the world around us.
War for Water: Prayer as Weapon
by Tatyanna Wilkinson
In North Dakota and around the country, water protectors(not protesters) have waged prayer to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Reference and Copyright
Submission Guidelines: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions/
Artworks are by Thea Ghar, Luisah Teish, Lezlie Kinyon, Chip Thomas and Thea Kinyon Boodhoo, all rights reserved, used by permission.
Reference:
General: Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre Vol. 5 # 2 Women in Oppression: Body, Mind, Heart, Art Ed. Lezlie A. Kinyon, ISSN 2333-0627
APA: Kinyon, L., Ph.D. (Ed.). (2016). Women in Oppression: Body, Mind, Heart, Art. Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre, 5(12). Retrieved from:
MLA: Kinyon, Lezlie, Ph.D., ed. Women in Oppression: Body, Mind, Heart, Art. Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre 5.1 (2016). Society for Ritual Arts. Autumn 2016. Web.
The name Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth and Theatre, the format, and the website are the sole property of Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D., Founding Editor, Society for Ritual Arts, Acting President.
A twice-yearly (Spring and Autumn) publication of The Society for Ritual Arts and are copyrighted under United States and international law.
For technical issues concerning the website, please contact:
Tatyanna Wilkinson, Technical Advisor, Web Designer
twilkinson@egeriaconsulting.net
Egeria Consulting
or Thea Kinyon, Brand Manager, Web Designer
tharkibo@gmail.com
For questions regarding copyright please contact:
Rev. Denise D. Dumars, M.A., Author’s Liaison
Authors’ Representative
Ashley Grayson Literary Agency, Retired.
eerieaerie@hotmail.com